[Cknight70]

Here's a link to the character if someone wants to test it themselves https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr

[RandallBrown]

Wow, that even crashes Safari on my Mac.

[akvadrako]

And if it get's in your history, it'll crash every time the character shows up again. I ended up having to delete the entry manually:

  $ sqlite3 ~/Library/Safari/History.db
  SQLite version 3.19.3 2017-06-27 16:40:08
  Enter ".help" for usage hints.
  sqlite> delete from history_items where url = "https://pastebin.com/9Tr8ytTr";

[talson]

Thanks!

[arenaninja]

Not crashing mine, using OSX 10.13.3, Safari 11.0.3

[adpirz]

Try copy and pasting the character in your address bar.

[arenaninja]

Ohhh nice. Yep, definitely crashed Safari on OSX 10.13.3 when the character is in the address bar. Firefox seems fine and is my daily driver, fortunately

[MarkyC4]

Firefox Developer Edition 59.0b9 here on latest High Sierra. Opening the link doesn't crash anything, but highlighting the paste did. I would have expected the tab at most to crash, but it took out the whole browser

[jumbopapa]

Also crashed Chromium on my Mac.

[kjullien]

also crashed firefox on mac and chrome somebody should just paste them here in the comments seeing the % of people here who run macos

[iaml]

HN is no fun allowed zone - it strips all unicode.

[brlewis]

What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388213

本気ですか？

[viraptor]

Not all Unicode. Ąėīû displays back to me as written.

[jcsnv]

I sent this link to my phone and the character is in the meta-title, which then crashed my phone. It works!

Now how to fix it...

[ronnier]

Option 1:

* Have someone else send you a message

* Click the notification and it'll open their message

* Navigate back and delete the corrupting message

Option 2:

* Sign up for the ios beta program (free) https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ and install the latest beta which isn't impacted.

[jcsnv]

Thank you!! I tried deleting the conversations through the settings and no luck. Will try these now

[sigotirandolas]

For WhatsApp deleting the conversation through WhatsApp Web seemed to fix it.

[hoki1]

tried option 1, did not work. app crashes when navigating back :(

[ronnier]

make sure to get enough messages to push it out of the preview. I think that's how it worked for me anyways.

[hoki1]

will give it a shot. thanks

[SalimoS]

That’s weird using safari on iOS 11.2.5 it didn’t crash the first time but now can’t open the pastbin link !

Edit: it’s random (it show in the 3D Touch to preview) https://imgur.com/a/xb5XV

[torstenvl]

Doesn't crash iOS 10.3 (although it doesn't seem to render correctly either)

https://imgur.com/cglhVS5

Would be really nice if Apple would stop treating its beta software as a final release.

[nwithan8]

Same over here. Didn't crash when emailed through Gmail to a Mac running an outdated version of OSX. But also didn't render correctly.

Looks like it rendered as two characters instead on one

[SalimoS]

Do you mind trying to open the link again ?

[torstenvl]

Just did. Still no crash.

[angrygoat]

iTerm2 crashes if that character is echoed to the terminal. To reproduce, make a file containing the character and then `cat` it.

Very nasty (reported upstream.)

[Corrado]

Original iPad here running iOS 9.3.5. Everything works as expected. I can't seem to crash anything with this string. Oh well, I guess that's the benefit of not upgrading, ever.

[Jakob]

It doesn’t crash SublimeText and LibreOffice under macOS but seemingly all the other applications (Browsers, Terminal, TextEdit, …)

[tosz25]

Crashed Chrome as well.

[aaomidi]

If if its the iPhone you're talking about. Chrome is a "wrapper" around Safari's web engine.

[ProZsolt]

It's crashes Chrome on MacOS